Explores how depression affects teens and how it is related to stress, with tips on knowing when to get help, how to cope with stress and sad feelings, and how depression impacts a teen's life at home and at school.
"Provides comprehensive information on depression and stress, including first-person interviews, signs and symptoms, physical dangers, recovery, and solutions"--Provided by publisher.
Presents an introduction to teenagers and stress, describing the issues that bother them, including peer pressure, academic stress, and terrorism, and providing ways to help kids make healthy choices and deal with anxiety, depression, and grief.
Describes the causes of stress, how to recognize and deal with them, and how to alleviate the stress itself by using such methods as breathing exercises, meditation, and creative visualization.
Discusses the dangers of specific drugs, explains how taking drugs to relieve tension or stress is likely to reinforce the problems and create greater stress, and suggests healthy ways to handle stress.
Examines stress; discussing what it is, its effects on the body, illnesses that accompany it, its prevalence in teenagers, and how to cope with it and take control.
Provides an inside look at ways in which teens cope with their stress and anger, such as keeping a journal, meditating, or having a good laugh, and includes advice for parents and other teens.
